Gideon Oliver is enjoying his Dorchester honeymoon with his new wife Julie when he hears that at 3:30,000-year-old skull was stolen from a nearby British Museum.A body is discovered in the sea & Gideon is asked by the local coroner to use his forensic skills to help identify the body. Meanwhile,Gideon hears from an old college professor that a colleague is directing an archeological dig where this dead man worked.As Gideon‘s & Julie‘s detecting ⬇️

#AprilPoetryChallenge #day22 #earth #AlexDimitrov

Top Tow: #sundaybuddyread #diaries #ChristieCapers #AgathaChristieClubR3 #foodanslit #Rowanda #readyourkindle #DorothySayers #poetry
Middle Row: #AprilPoetryChallenge
Bottom Row: #bookedintime #ChinaQuingDynastyPost1912+ #nonfiction #hummingbirds #audiobook #QueensofCrime

#bookreport
Top Row: #sundaybuddyread Trying to catch up this week; #Audiobook #QueensofCrime; #nonfiction #hummingbirds #readyourkindle #DorothySayers
Middle Row: #poetry
Bottom Row: finished books #memoir #DCIBanks #GideonOliver #forensicanthropology

#NationalPoetryMonth #day21 #broken #AprilPoetryChallenge

#NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #day20 #sky #AprilPoetryChallenge

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Starting my Easter morning with coffee & a book. We are going to brunch at my sister‘s at noon-lots of family coming. Happy Easter! 🐣💛

I love this book! My sister introduced me to its splendor. 🪽

“ In this final phase, which remains our own, the best picture of God is the hummingbird.”

Agatha Christie humor.

Today I feel spring around the corner- reached 71 today. I feel exhilaration after attending a protest in Hartford, always coffee, the “ Robert Tree” our Magnolia is starting to bloom, kitties, tonight‘s sunset, Litsy friends, the ocean at Banks Street Beach, Harwich Port,Cape Cod,books!, my first porch day with coffee & a book, sisters, hummingbirds yet to visit my garden. #hope #joy #love #gratitude #resist #nature #moodboardcontest #mbc

Spent #chatterday at Hartford‘s Capitol building joining in the National protests. #protest #democracy #resist 🇺🇸🇺🇸 ☕️

In the 70‘s today. A day to be outside in nature! #daffodils #hyacythscyllia #magnolia #RobertTree #birdsong

The closest I could get to “mostly.” #NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #day19 #RobertFrost #AprilPoetryChallenge

#NationalPoetryMonth #April #day18 #water #AprilPoetryChallenge
These poems were translated by Jane Kenyon with Vera Sandomirsky Dunham in 1985. They are included in her book, Collected Poems, which is how I was introduced to this Russian poet.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova

My #weekendreads
Listening to The Queens of Crime , which is a delight, while cooking & driving. Diving into Aaaron Elkins‘ novel, began A Summer of Hummingbirds, & trying to catch up with Edna St. Vincent Millay. #audiobookmurdermystery #forensicarcheology #hummingbirds #sundaybuddyread

‘“A cadaveric spasm had caused Rothwell to grab and hold onto a handful of dust at the moment of death,and Banks thought of the T.S.Elliott quotation, “I will show you fear and a handful of dust,”which he had come across as the title of an Evelyn Waugh novel.”‘
A wild,ingenious plot, with unforeseen consequences for many of the characters.Bank‘ nemesis “Dirty Dick reappears to the consternation of Banks.At Banks request,big, bumbling,but astute ⬇️

“ I soon discovered that almost all the actors I‘d begun to assemble on my little stage…were fanatical about hummingbirds…my attempts to trace the origins of this informal cult of hummingbirds,kept leading back to the Civil War…American during and after the Civil War gradually left behind a static view of existence…they came to see a new dynamism and movement in their lives…This dynamism… found perfect expression in the hummingbird.”

#5joysfriday #gratitude #Joy

Top row: 3 days on Cape Cod, MA with my 3 sisters! 💕💕💕💕
Bottom row: all today- in the 50s, my first day of the season on my porch. Neighbors out walking, bikers cycling by, birds singing. Coffee & a book! 🚶🏻‍♀️🚴‍♂️☕️📘 🪶🐦‍⬛🎶☀️ A taste of spring…

First coffee of the day; first coffee on my porch!
In the 50s today -I am so excited!

1) tagged book
2) A Time for Defiance - too much military/fighting WWII & rather pathetic sister left behind in England. Probably others but this was a recent DNF
#WondrousWednesday

Music to soothe the soul. Song is more incorruptible than love. Songs endure & pass through generations while love can be transient.
#ElieWiesel #Akhmatova #DCIBanks #EdwinMarkham #MairaKalman

#nurseryrhyme #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #day17 #Thursday

https://music.apple.com/us/album/5-childhood-lyrics-i-mondays-child/445486835?i=...

#poetry #EdnaStVincentMillay

Sister love. Ocean love. Sand love. Seashell love.
Wine & zucchini fries at The Hot Stove in Harwich Port- shared stories, constant laughter. Celebrating sister love.#sisters #grateful

Lunch & book shopping with my 3 sisters today- so much laughter & book talk!
#NationalPoetryMonth #vacation

#NationalPoetryMonth #day16 #romance #poetry #AprilPoetryChallenge

1) we filed in March & got both federal & state taxes back within a week.
2) Grit

#NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #day15 #daring #AprilPoetryChallenge
“…Knows if the bough breaks, still his wings
Will bear him upward while he sings!”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edwin-markham

Tuesday morning coffee. That first sip…ecstasy!

#NationalPoetryMonth #AprilPoetryPrompts #day14 #Hollow #AprilPoetryChallenge

#hyggehour
Hope everyone is relaxing tonight. I am on spring break, so no work this week. Yay!!

#sundaybuddyread #naturalitsy #TheQueensofCrime #audiobook #readyourkindle #DorothySayers #foodandlit #Rowanda #poetry #CommissarioGuidoBrunettiMystery #FamilyStories

‘“Shakespeare was right…Lust often is “murderous, bloody,full of blame,/Savage,extreme,rude,cruel,not to trust.”‘
A bloody murder sends CI Banks, and his team down a rabbit hole in an effort to understand gaps in the victim‘s life story. Is the why of her murder rooted in her past? Literature,poetry, & music play an essential role: Shakespeare, Philip Larkin,Vivaldi,Mesiaen. A character even suggests that Banks is in competition with PD James‘⬇️

Yesterday my son & I enjoyed another #makingmemories day in NYC.The cold,damp,& rain did not deter us! We took a 6:10 a.m. Amtrak train to the Metro North line which let us out at Grand Central Station.Breakfast for me was 2 mini bacon quiches & Starbucks coffee. Perfect start to my day! The MET exhibit was truly breathtaking. I love how the drawings, etchings, & oil paintings took us through Friedrich‘s artistic & spiritual life chronologically.

Afternoon tea with Edna. Catching ip on today‘s reading.

#day13 #poetry #April #femalepoets #AprilPoetryChallenge
I could not find this book in the data base, but I highly recommend it.

My four picks for #CampLitsy25

#nationalpoetrymonth #celebratepoetry
#day12 #carry #AprilPoetryChallenge

I am late to the poetry party, but hope to post on occasion this month.💖

Top row: currently reading #sundaybuddyread #naturalitsy #DCIBanks #5 #readyourkindle #QueensofCrime #audiobook
Bottom row: finished books #IsabellaGardner #PatrikHedstromMystery #decoupagemystrty #2 #audiobook

Crazy New England weather in CT this week. Gray clouded sky one day, then a brief appearance of the sun another day- magnolia tree bud, star hyacinth, now snow Friday & today! So so happy Litsy is working today-“Where books make friends.” Friday I missed everyone!

#reachbeyondlanguage #silence #Witness
“Remember when you read, that every sentence has a past.”

#Witness #ElieWiesel #holocaust #stories
“We must tell stories.”

#2 in the #decoupagemystery series. This time the ending, the “ who dun it” took me by surprise. Lots of information in the world of decoupage & a little romance.Friendship & found family themes.#serieslove2025 #audiobook

This is what I woke up to this morning! Only in New England! Happy Friday everyone! ❄️❄️❄️

3 favs: Lady Bird, Selma, The Black Panther

Reading with Em-cat tonight.

1) magnolia & star hyacinth
2) my family, my staff team at work, my kitties
#gratitude #WondrousWednesday

We finished Night today at work.Planning to have the students watch the movie The Book Thief to wind down to our spring break, which begins on Friday. Witness is a perfect complement to Night.